Have patience with every one, but especially with yourself. - Francis de Sales

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Have patience with every one, but especially with yourself.

Francis de Sales

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About Francis de Sales

Saint Francis de Sales (French: Saint François de Sales) (21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622) was bishop of Geneva and a Roman Catholic saint. He worked to convert Protestants back to Catholicism, was an accomplished preacher, and wrote books on religious topics.

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Alternative Names: Saint Francis de Sales • St. Francis de Sales • Saint Francis of Sales • Bishop of Geneva • François de Sales • François de Salfes • St. Francis of Sales • Francis De Sales

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Additional quotes by Francis de Sales

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love—every man works his oar voluntarily!

The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.